Download or read book A Marquis in Want of a Wife written by Louise Allen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A convenient marriage No inconvenient emotions Ross Vincent, Marquis of Cranford, with his scarred face and formidable disposition, knows he’s hardly a catch. But he needs a wife to take care of his motherless son. Shy, scholarly Prudence Scott seems ideal: she has no expectation of love or passion. She’ll care for his baby in return for the protection of his name. Yet seeing Prudence on their wedding day tests Ross’s willpower to not take his new wife to bed… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Liberated Ladies Unconventional heiresses…full of big ambitions! Book 1: Least Likely to Marry a Duke Book 2: The Earl’s Marriage Bargain Book 3: A Marquis in Want of a Wife

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Download or read book Sade s Wife written by Margaret Crosland and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of: the Marquise de Sade is inevitably linked to that of her husband, but Renee Pelagie de Montreuil gains the consideration she never received in her lifetime in this book by "one of the world's most distinguished scholars of Sade's work" -- The Independent. Who was Sade's wife? And why did she love him so devotedly for almost thirty years? Crosland competently shows how the Sade marriage symbolized the decay of the old aristocracy, and conveys the struggle of one individual to establish her personal identity at a time in France when women had virtually no rights of their own.

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